[EN] Migration from aptosid

[jaegermeister]

Hello guyz,

I was just asking myself... say we have some machines installed with aptosid-kde and we'd like to migrate them to siduction, is reinstalling from scratch the only solution?

Considering that the base is right now relatively compatible for somewhat time frame, is there some possibility of migrating without reinstalling? Has anybody tried this already?

THX

[devil]

You being an experienced user, it should not be a problem. The only concern we have with migrations is, that in certain situations support could be a bit harder. But that does not weigh in as heavy for you either, as you can basicaly support yourself.

So, basicaly you do:
1. adapt your sources (add siduction repo(s)
2. 'dpkg -l | grep aptosid' to see what aptosid packages are installed
3. find the corresponding siduction packages and install them
4. apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/aptosid/{print $2}')
5. delete aptosid from your sources
6. reboot

that should do the trick

greetz
devil

[rennlenker]

0. Care for a valid backup that enables you to recover from bare metall!!!

[ayla]

Did it like devil said above today on my mothers laptop, except I made an aptosid d-u first and then installed towos kernel, bootet it and startet the migration after. No problems.

greets
ayla

[DeepDayze]

I've done this migration on one machine with Aptosid installed and had no issues with it as it was up to date. I didn't want to reinstall on this particular machine as I had everything set up just right and didn't want to muck with all the settings again

[clubex]

gpm and libgpm2 are still on my system and there doesn.t appear to be a siduction alternative unless I'm missing something.

[devil]

both are in debian. no need for distro specific packages.

greetz
devil

[jaegermeister]

Thanks for the good news, devil!
Is there also a page with all the official+unofficial repos?

My intention is to migrate all my current 4 sid machines, using an almost fresh one for testing. Btw, having still slh kernels and thus migrating to towo's ones, will smxi recognize the migration (I still prefer to use it to update kernels so that I do it just when I want) or is there something to tweak, like for instance the distro name that appears with infobash -v3 or inxi -F?

One last question: when 2.6.37 came, there was some dropping of UFS (bsd44 flavour), whose support slh continued to backport; I don't know exactly the situation now with vanilla kernel, but slh's till 3.3 works pretty well with OpenBSD. Has anybody tested siduction kernel with UFS mounts?

THX

[devil]

Repositories are at http://packages.siduction.org/
A map of siduction is at: http://chili.siduction.org/projects/siduction/wiki/Map_Siduction

greetz
devil

[holgerw]

Hi Ferdinand,

perhaps it is a good idea to link our packages section directly with our main page or on our dowload page.

Kind regards,
  Holger

[jaegermeister]

Hi Ferdinand,
perhaps it is a good idea to link our packages section directly with our main page or on our dowload page.

+1

[michaa7]

A *map* should be where everyone looking for a map can easily find it. A city map usually can be found on frequently visited places. For similar reasons the siduction map should be where it can be found by everyone ... in the main menue. *All* other places are more or less useless as only people who do *not* need a siduction map know where the map is *hidden*. All other people do not and ***cannot*** know where to look.

OMG

[jaegermeister]

Hello guyz,

so I'm reporting my first conversion results from some minutes ago The testbed machine is an HP TC4400 tablet pc, with T7200, 3GB, 500GB. Already preconfigured fully with the old distro.

This is some insight on the hw (pretty std, btw):

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)                                                                                                        
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)                                                                                              
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)                                                                                                  
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)              
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)                              
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)                              
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)                              
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)                      
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)                      
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)                      
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)                      
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)                        
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)                                          
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)                          
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)                          
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 01)    
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller                                            
02:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)          
02:06.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller                
02:06.4 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 GemCore based SmartCard controller                  
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5753M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21)      
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)


Included repos are: siduction, user, community, fixes, experimental; I didn't include kdenext and experimental-snapshots.

Transition has been incredibly smooth, purging old packages and adding siduction ones. Also installed towo's 3.3 kernel. Then made today's dist-upgrade.

There's still a couple of problems:
1. no alternatives for aptosid-manual packages?
2. audio is gone ...alsamixer is still showing correct controls and settings, audio from gui is not audible (but pretends to play), low level stuff like mpg321 just hangs. I'll now try running the old kernel and alternative OSs to exclude other kinda problems, then report.

[devil]

we use bluewater-manual, a updated version

greetz
devil

[jaegermeister]

Thanks devil, just installed bluewater

I also rebooted with slh's kernel and got back audio. The versions of the two kernels are the following:

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3.3-1.towo.1-siduction-amd64
3.3-0.slh.3-aptosid-amd64


I would really like to help to debug the issue, so please tell me which further data I should provide (maybe the 2 different dmesg?).

THX